Sources - Local History

Aberdeenshire Suffolk

Co.Clare Co.Dublin Co.Kerry

Co.Limerick Co.Tipperary Co.Westmeath

Sources - Local History

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Aberdeenshire

• GENUKI - Aberdeenshire
  • Aberdeen par

• Aberdeen FHS - Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society
  • library, King St, Aberdeen

• Aberdeen Directory, [ACL] Lo RR.
• Aberdeen Almanac, [ACL] Lo RR.
• Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries, [ACL] Lo RR.
• "In Memoriam" (Aberdeen obituaries), [ACL] Lo RR.

• Aberdeen Grammar School
  • Aberdeen Grammar School: Roll of Pupils 1795-1919, Theodore Watt, [ACL] Lo 373.41 RR.

• Streets of Aberdeen
• Aberdeen centre map, 1866-67

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Suffolk

• Suffolk Parish Records Vol 3 (Marriages for Hoxne 1548-1837)
• Suffolk Marriages, Ipswich Deanery, 1754-1812
• Ipswich St Nicholas, parish records
• Suffolk, Ipswich, St Nicholas, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1539-1710

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Co.Clare

• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Clare
• Co.Clare BMD project
• Clare Heritage and Genealogical Research Centre
• Clare County Library
  • Genealogy

• Works
  • Houses of Clare, Hugh W.L. Weir, Ballinakella Press, Whitegate, Co.Clare, 1986.

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Co.Dublin

• Co.Dublin
• GENUKI - Co.Dublin
• History of Dublin
• Maps of Dublin

• Dublin architectural history (and here)
• Street names of Dublin
• Dublin street finder from [Thom's, 1888].
• Dublin pubs

Local government

• Dublin City Council
  • Dublin City Council
  • Dublin City Libraries
  • Dublin City Council traffic cameras (or here or here)
  • Record of Protected Structures, Dublin

• DCA - Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse St, Dublin
  • Heritage and History
  • Dublin City Archives

• dublinheritage.ie
  • Dublin par records - index online, think full entries in [DCA]
  • no fuzzy matching - only exact matching
  • so must use wildcards like flan*

• Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
  • Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

• South Dublin County Council
  • South Dublin County Council
  • South Dublin Libraries
  • South Dublin Images
  • South Dublin County History

• Fingal County Council
  • Fingal County Council
  • Fingal County Archives (and here)
  • Fingal County Libraries

Works

• Chapters of Dublin History by Ken Finlay
  • online books
  • images
  • Dublin Day by Day: 365 Days of Dublin History by Ken Finlay

• "The Lesser Castles of the County Dublin", E.R.M. Dix, The Irish Builder, 1897 (think [NLI] microfiche IR 69405 i 42)

• A History of the County Dublin, Francis Elrington Ball, 6 vols, 1902-20, repub 1995.
  • Text (without images) online.
  • Scan (with images):
    • vol 1
    • vol 2
    • vol 3
    • vol 4 (try here)
    • vol 5
    • vol 6

• Fair Fingall, Patrick Archer, written pre-1949, pub by An Taisce Fingall, 1975, repub with new illustrations post-1990.
• Fingal, 1603-60: contending neighbours in North Dublin, Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha, 2005.
• Encyclopaedia of Dublin, Douglas Bennett, 1991.
• Between the Mountains and the Sea, Peter Pearson, O'Brien Press, 1998. See interview.
• Dublin - A Grand Tour, Jacqueline O'Brien with Desmond Guinness, 1994.
• Dublin: A Celebration, Pat Liddy, 2000, pub by Dublin Corporation.
• The Rivers of Dublin, Clair L. Sweeney, 1991.
• Dublin's Heritage of Pubs (booklet), Peter Walsh, Guinness Museum, 1988.

• Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, pre-1903.
• Dundrum, Stillorgan and Rathfarnham: Gateway to the mountains, Christopher Ryan, Cottage Publications.

• Bonnie Flanagan
  • Stately Homes Around Stillorgan, 1991, [Dundrum Library] Local History.
  • Stillorgan Again but different .., 1996, [Dundrum Library] Local History.

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Co.Kerry

• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Kerry
  • towns and parishes

• Co.Kerry
• Co.Kerry
• Tralee
• Tralee street names

• Co.Kerry BMD project
• Co.Kerry genealogy
  • site map
  • Co.Kerry townlands
  • Tralee Protestant baptisms
• Co.Kerry records

  
  

• KCL - Kerry County Library, Tralee (or via here, see map of Tralee)
  • local history and archives
  • newspapers
  • web catalog
  • branches in Co.Kerry (or here or here)

• KAHS - Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, based at KCL
  • Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, [KCL] RR
    • index to nos. 1-29 is in no.30, 1997, [KCL] RR
  • Kerry Archaeological Magazine, [KCL] RR
  • The Kerry Magazine (mid-19th cent), [KCL] RR
    • index, [KCL] RR 941.96
  • The Kerry Magazine (modern), [KCL] RR

• KCM - Kerry County Museum, Tralee (or here)
• KGS - Kerry Genealogical Society, Tralee
• Killarney Library
• Irish Emigration Research Project, in Blennerville
  • think this was formerly the Kerry Genealogical Project, Blennerville

• Co.Kerry parish records
  • Killarney Genealogical Centre, Cathedral Walk, Killarney (end of the lane beside Cathedral, on LHS). Not yet open.
  • Kerry Diocesan Archives, Bishop's House, Killarney (beside Cathedral), (064) 31168.
  • The Presbytery, Killarney, (064) 31014.

Works

• Mary Agnes Hickson
  • Selections from Old Kerry Records, Vol.1 1872, Vol.2 1874, [NLI] Ir 94146 h 1, [KCL] 941.96
    • Vol.1 1872 online. Entire file (warning - 46 M):
    • index is in [KCL] RR
    • whole thing copied (and indexed) in [O'Kief, vol.5]
    • Vol.1 has historical list of High Sheriffs of Co.Kerry

  • Tralee Protestant Parish Registers 1771-1816, annotated by Hickson
    • Kerry Evening Post, June-Oct 1880, [Nash]
    • Kerry Evening Post, Mar-Sept 1909
  • Ireland in the 17th Century, 1884.
  • Index of persons in Ireland in the 17th century, [SOG] IR/G 53A

  
  

• The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry, Charles Smith, 1756.
• Kerry Genealogies by Rev. Arthur Blennerhassett Rowan, 1846, [NLI] microfilm POS 2786
• The "Nash Newspaper Cuttings Collection for Co.Kerry", [SOG] IR/L 51, and also [LDS] microfilm 0477616.
• Cusack's History of the Kingdom of Kerry, 1871
• History of Kerry by Jeremiah King
  • 1st edn, 6 parts, 1907-12, [NLI] Ir 94146 k2
  • 2nd edn, c.1912-, [NLI] think pamphlets P 2267
  • 3rd edn, County Kerry, past and present, 1931, [NLI] Ir 94146 k3,
    fully reproduced and indexed in [O'Kief] vol.6,
    repub 1986, Mercier Press, ISBN 0-85342-798-4
• Sir Henry Denny, 7th Baronet
  • A handbook of County Kerry Family History, Biography, Etc, published by the Archaeological Group of "The County Kerry Society" 1923, [NLI] Ir 9291 d 1
  • Kerry families, original manuscript, [SOG] IR/L 49
• The Co.Kerry Society annual reports 1922-40, [KCL] 941.96

• Listowel and its vicinity, J.Anthony Gaughan, 1973
  • 2nd edn, Cork, 1974, [RDS] I 941.96
• Tralee: A Historical Guide, Michael O'Dwyer, post-1978, [KCL] 941.96
• Short History and Guide to Tralee and its Environs, Russell Mc Morran, 1980, [KCL] 941.96
• Houses of Kerry, Valerie Bary, 1994, [DCU] REF 728.

• Tralee Miscellany, [KCL] RR, vols 1-5
  • There are two vol.4's. Same material, in two different orders.

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Co.Limerick

• limerickancestry.com
• Co.Limerick
• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Limerick

• connorsgenealogy.com by Pat Connors
  • Co.Limerick

• LCC - Limerick City Council (or via here or here)
  • Local studies
    • 1885 Register of Electors, Limerick City and environs
    • 1923 Register of Electors, Limerick
    • Limerick City Trades Register 1769-1925
    • Obituaries & Funeral Notices from the Limerick Chronicle (and here)
  • Limerick City Council and Local Government Collections
    • Limerick Union Board of Guardians Minute Books, 1842-1922 (only 1842-1870 online)

• LCL - Limerick City Library
  • Material online

• from-ireland.net
  • Limerick
• Co.Limerick BMD project

• limerick.com
• street map of Limerick
• Co.Limerick data

• The Theatre Royal (see here)
  • If Walls Could Talk - The Limerick Athenaeum, The story of an Irish Theatre since 1852, by James A. McMahon and Seamus Flynn, 1996.

• Works
  • Remembering Limerick: Historical Essays Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Limerick's First Charter, edited by David Lee, 1997.

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Co.Tipperary

• Co.Tipperary
• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Tipperary
• North Tipperary County Council
• South Tipperary County Council

• Co.Tipperary BMD project
• Co.Tipperary libraries
• Co.Tipperary Historical Society (see also here)

• Co.Tipperary records
• Co.Tipperary genealogy
  • List of Freeholders of Co.Tipperary 1776
• Co.Tipperary voters 1838 and 1839
• tipp.ie
• tipperary.com
• tourism

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Co.Westmeath

• map of Co.Westmeath parishes
• map of Co.Westmeath baronies

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